Cambodian Crop Production &
Marketing ACIAR Project
Project meeting 10-11th February 2009, Battambang
Post-harvest and Value Chain Activities in Pailin
Andrew Higgins, Greg Secomb and Ly Bunthoeun
Objectives
Understanding the value chain
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Mapping the chain using a bottom up approach
Identify relationship structures, logistic flows, economic flows
Identify where the opportunities are
Tools for learning and analysis
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Database model
Periscope for the chain - Farmers, Middlemen (and others) learning about the chain
around them
Model scenarios for value chain opportunities
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Transport
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better utilisation (or sharing) of existing vehicles
targeting priority areas for road improvements
identifying additional “fuel efficient” vehicles that should be adopted
improving the routing of transport
Small farm (or multi-farm) storage & drying facilities
• increased market prices versus costs of facilities
• how many facilities, and where should they be
Illustration of a Maize Value Chain in Pailin
Illustration of a Maize Value Chain in Pailin
Survey Information
Case study cluster has been identified - CARE Cluster 2
• Stung Kach Commune, Sala Krau District, Pailin Municipality
Data gathering – Farmer/middlemen
• Surveys
• A sample of 8-10 farmers from the 12 villages
• Further farmers surveyed if needed
• Interview all the middlemen operating in cluster
• Farmer questionnaire developed and entered in a PDA
• Progress by CARE team
• About 88 households to date
• Mainly surveyed farmers at this stage and about 6 middlemen
• Number of middlemen is far more than originally thought
• Need comprehensive survey of middlemen to try to untangle this web
• We have to learn more about how these middlemen operate
Other Information Gathering
Transport, storage, dehulling
• Plan to use GPS (on PDA) to collect locations of all the strategic sites in the
value chain
• Then overlay these points on to existing software applications (ie. ArcMap or
Google Maps) to generate a good visual image of the system
• CARE have already produced a map of the region for CARE target villages
• Have GPS’s some farmer locations, but not all
Silo
• List of inbound deliveries to the Silo during the EWS and LWS
• List of outgoing deliveries
Database Tool
MS Access version
• Ease of entry for CARE officers
• Each sheet represents a segment in the value chain
• Useful consolidated storage
• Illustrate chain linkages and networks structures
Demonstration and education
• Walk farmers and middlemen across their value chain
Give 2 Minute MS Access
Demonstration
Contacts
Greg Secomb
Agricultural Advisor
CARE - Cambodia
Pailin Office
Phone - 012 619 043
Email greg.secomb@care-cambodia.org
Andrew Higgins
Group Leader – Decision Technologies for Sustainability
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Phone +61 7 3214 2340)
Email Andrew.Higgins@csiro.au
Thank You
Proposed Activities for 2008/2009
2008
Activity
Farmer cluster selection and form working group
Information gathering
Map the supply chain
Develop database
Validate the supply chain map
Develop scenarios for value chain opportunities
Extension to other CARE clusters
Develop business case or feasibility studies for funding
and building the transport, storage & drying facilities.
MayJune
JulySep
2009
OctDec
JanMar
Apr –
June
JulySept
OctDec
Next Steps
Expand the questions in the farmer and middleman survey.
Finish off the farmer and middleman surveys.
Check with the Pailin Silo about obtaining the Silo information
Check with the Ministry of Commerce about obtaining the information about
truck deliveries in to Thailand
If the truck delivery information cannot be obtain through the MoC or Customs,
explore the feasibility of surveying drivers crossing the Thailand/Cambodia
boarder.
Refine initial MS Access database model. Add a feature to ensure ease of data
entry for CARE project staff. Also add a feature, to provide analysis of the
supply chain (e.g. show the network relationships) and provide summary
information.
Next Steps /2
Obtain more information on the justification of the middleman spending
$15,000 on the weighbridge outside Pailin. Check for available economic
analysis.
Develop statistical and network analysis methods to model and analyse the
supply network in the CARE cluster 2.
Develop specific scenarios to analyse.
Reflections, learnings, updates for 2009
Supply chain a much more complex networks, than first anticipated or indicated
by top down analysis
• Data gathering a very complex and time consuming task
• Significant benefits though
• Just mapping and modelling the chain a significant innovation
• Increase effort on this activity
Add after more discussions with Greg